New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-06-28
NO JUBILEE IN IRELAND.
s1rFFERING ERIN FORGOTTEN IN THE
GENERAL REJOICING.
THE COERCION ACT MADE PERPETUAL IN Ai0
opaRAnoNs-PRoTEsT OF IRISH
THE DUBLIN LORD MAYoRALTY.

,,c,ox ACT MADE PERPETUAL IN ITS
opgp. r,oys-PRoTEsT OF IRISH PRELATEs-
THE DUBLIN LORD MAYoRALTY.
Try CABLE 10 THE rRIBUSRi
,o.;n,, 1897 bv The North American Gable Neps co.,
Ioxnoy June o7.--Overshadowed as everything
bsre was last week by the Jubilee. and strained to
.ha utmost as your columns no doubt were by the
sub;ect I refrained from troubling you with the
affairs of Door little Ireland, the Cinderella who
s,aved at home In the kitchen while her sisters
went off TO the party. She did not jublate IN
Cork, Her people hung out black hags ana INC
RoyaI Irish Constabulary hammered loyalty lh'o
their skulls with the heavy end Of their patons'
While carpenters in England were raising
triumphal arches, in every town IN lreland at
the very same moment they were httlhg up tue
jails with number of little cages Win wires ike
rat-traps from which visitors under the Coercion
act are to be permitted q aistaht vic" VI 'no
prisoners they come to see
In Monaghan, a Castle County Court Judge pub
Isbes the following announcement in honor of the
days
"As the celebration of the Jubilee OF our Most
Gracious Majesty, the Queen. will take place on
Tuesday next the Court Will not sit on that day 10
hear any business but ejectments. ana will adjourn
at 12 o'clock noon"
The work of the crow bar brigade was not to be
interrupted even by the Jubilee and while oil Eng
land was strewing the ways with garlands and
singing no sannahs, fathers and mothers In Ireland
were having their roOftrees torn down and their
homesbroken up forever think the complete aloof-
ness of Ireland from the proceedings was one of the
most significant features of the Jubilee celebration.
Not only did the Irish Parliamentary party absent
themselves from Westminster Abbey. but curIously
enough no Irish regiment had place among the
guards Of honor. Several Scotch regiments
displayed their kits and tartans. Even troop
of dusky cavalry had been brought all the way
from Bengal to represent the Indian army, but no
Irish troops, though there were plenty hard by at
Aldershot
The Coercion bill Is before the House
again tonight and the Coercionist majority
have just voted it perpetual rejecting Mr. Nor
leys amendment limiting its duration to three
years. 1t is hardly generally appreciated that In
making this act perpetual the Unionists are actu-
ally violating the famous Act of Union
which thoy have made their shibbo-
ieth. The principle of the Act of Union
was that Ireland in losing her own Parliament
was to have equal laws with England and to be on
the same footing of equality as an integral por-
ton of the United Kingdom Though Ireland has
never enjoyed this privilege actually, nominally
the right has been recognized In all the previous
repressve legislation. They all, by limiting them
selves to term of years, stamped themselves as
exceptional and temporary measures, not meant to
interfere with the permanent character OF the law
1t was reserved for the sef-called Unionist party
to formally repeal the Act of Uaon in this
respect and enact a permanent difference in the
laws of England and Ireland.
The strong resolutions passed against the Coer-
cion bill by the Catholic archbishops and bishops
of Ireland at their annual meeting at May
nooth ought to make a Government less dense
and headstrong than the present one pause.
The prelates declare that in their deliberate judg-
ment the employment of this measure will not only
fail to check crime and outrage within
the limited area where they now exist,
but will provoke opposition to law ,ov.i1sS whsle
and that they will merely drive discomfort
under the surface and substitute for open and con-
stitutonal action the disastrous agency OF secret
societies.
AS have received several communications from
friends in America the subject and as
Inv name has been kindly referred to in some
American papers in connection with 1t. VIII you
allow me TO say here that it is not l. hut my
esteemed colleague Mr.. Henry !, Gill, OF Roebuck
House. Clonskeagh. County Dublin, and NJ, L. for
Limerick who was recently nominated as Lord
Mavor-elect for Dublin. l. T. GILI, NJ T.